Wrapper for a bunch of flowers

ABSTRACT

A holder for a bunch of flowers includes a sleeve surrounding the bunch, which is designed as a truncated cone having circumferential reinforcements at the free openings to form a relatively rigid form and a trying cord fastened to the sleeve lower free opening.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a flower holder.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART

A holder of this kind is known from NL-A-8802054. It should beunderstood that where reference is made in this description to bottomopening or other parts with bottom or top, a state of the holder inwhich the flowers of a bouquet are situated at the top side and thestalks are situated at the inderside is intended. A bunch of flowerscan, of course, also be positioned inversely.

Such a holder is used to receive a bunch of flowers. On the underside anopening remains free in order to be able to place the stalks of theflowers in a bucket or the like in order to provide supply of water.

Although packaging of this kind is quite adequate it has thedisadvantage that the position of the bunch of flowers with regard tothe holder is not fixed so that it is quite possible that the flowerswill leave the holder in an uncontrolled way.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention aims to remove this drawback. This object is achieved inthe case of a holder as described above by means of the characterizingfeatures of claim 1.

As a result, the arrangement of a bouquet is preserved and damage to theplants is prevented. Moreover, due to the presence of a tying cord, thebouquet can easily be secured.

The above-described circumferentical reinforcement may be present notonly on the underside but also on the top side. Moreover, furthercircumferential reinforcements may be present.

Although the sleeve may have all forms known in the prior art, it ispreferably designed as a truncated cone.

The sleeve may be made from all materials known in the prior art. In apreferred embodiment, the structure comprises strip parts which extendperpendicularly to the above-described circumferential reinforcement.

These strip parts, as well as the rest of the sleeve, can be made fromreed-like material.

It is, however, also quite possible to construct the sleeve in adifferent manner. Thus it can consist of a lattice, such as gauze. Witha construction of this kind, at least part of what is situated insidethe sleeve remains visible, which can be attractive for certainapplications.

The above-described holder can also be used in combination with potplants. If the underside of the pots is, provided with openings, it isoften undesirable for moisture to escape to the outside through theseopenings. In such a case, it is proposed to arrange a sheet of plasticmaterial or other liquid-tight material in the vicinity of the openingof the holder, and such a sheet provides a liquid-tight seal at thebottom when the pot plant is placed through the opening.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention will be illustrated in more detail below with reference toan exemplary embodiment depicted in the drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 shows a perspective and cut-away view of the holder according tothe invention;

FIG. 2 shows the holder according to the invention with a number offlowers arranged therein; and

FIG. 3 shows the holder according to the invention in combination with apot plant.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The sleeve according to the invention is indicated in its entirety by 1in FIGS. 1 and 2. This sleeve consists of a number of reinforcement ribs6-8 which extend along the circumference of the sleeve 1. In this case,reinforcement rib 6 is situated in the vicinity of the bottom opening 4,reinforcement rib 7 in the vicinity of the top opening and reinforcementrib 8 between them. These reinforcement ribs are supported by stripparts 9. Tying cords 2 are fastened to the bottom reinforcement ribs 6.

All the said components can be made from a reed-like material.Conventional joining techniques, such as sewing, can be used to hold thevarious parts together.

Instead of the relatively fine structure shown here, it is also possibleto use a coarse structure.

In FIG. 2, the use of the sleeve according to the invention incombination with a bunch of flowers 5 is shown. It can be seen from thisthat stalks of the bunch project through the bottom, smaller opening 4,which stalks are held together by the tying threads 2. For protection, afurther sleeve 10 may optionally be placed over the stalks, or a pieceof aluminium foil may be used.

With the structure chosen here, the bouquet which is present in thesleeve will not easily be changed to a different arrangement. Moreover,the reinforcement ribs 6-8 provide protection against external forces.The bouquet according to the present invention will also not beflattened during transportation and optimum presentation is obtained.

In FIG. 3, a further embodiment of the holder according to the inventionin combination with a pot plant is shown.

Parts which correspond to FIGS. 1 and 2 are provided with the samereference numerals. The tying threads 2 are used here to secure the potplant to the sleeve 1.

The pot of the pot plant is indicated by 12 and is provided with anopening 13.

In order to prevent moisture from leaking through this opening 13, it isproposed to arrange a sheet of material 14 in the holder according tothe invention. When the opening 4 arranged on the underside of thesleeve 1 is spread open, the sheet 14 will provide a lower boundary forthe structure. This sheet 14 remains invisible to the user due to thepresence of the reed-like material.

Although the invention is described above with reference to a preferredembodiment, it should be understood that numerous modifications may bemade thereto without departing from the scope of the presentapplication. Thus it is possible to produce the structure from gauzematerial, which may or may not be provided with a curing resin. Theopening in the holder may also be present in a prepared state, that isto say due to the absence of threads extending around the top of thecone. It is also possible to use a different polygonal shape instead ofa truncated cone shape. This and similar variants are all considered tobe obvious and to lie within the scope of the claims.

I claim:
 1. A holder for a bunch of flowers comprising:a sleeve havingan upper opening, a lower opening, an interior surface designed tosurround the flowers and an exterior surface; a plurality of stripsrunning generally from said lower opening to said upper opening; aplurality of circumferential reinforcements supported by said pluralstrips; a first of said plural circumferential reinforcements beinglocated at said lower opening; and a tying cord attached to one of saidplural circumferential reinforcements and having a length to allow saidtying cord to extend through said lower opening.
 2. The holder of claim1, wherein a second of said plural circumferential reinforcements islocated at said upper opening.
 3. The holder of claim 1, wherein saidsleeve is in the shape of a truncated cone.
 4. The holder of claim 1,wherein one of said plural strips is aligned perpendicularly to saidplural circumferential reinforcements.
 5. The holder of claim 1, whereinsaid plural strips comprise a reed material.
 6. The holder of claim 1,wherein said sleeve further comprises a lattice.
 7. The holder of claim6, wherein said lattice comprises a gauze.